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Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., Mr. J. D. Salmon, and Mr. J. P. Norman 

 were elected new members of the Council. • 



Friday, November 5, 1851. — Arthur Henfrey, Esq., F.LS., V.P., in 

 the chair. 



The following donations were announced : — ' Proceedings of the 

 Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society,' No. 6 ; presented by 

 the Society. 'Proceedings of the Portsmouth and Portsea Literary 

 and Philosophical Society ;' presented by the Society. ' Report of 

 the Seventh General Meeting of Subscribers to the Lynn Museum ;' 

 presented by the Rev. J. Bransby. ' Journal of the Statistical Society 

 of London ;' presented by the Society. ' Pharmaceutical Journal 

 and Transactions ;' presented by the Pharmaceutical Society. ' The 

 Gardener's Magazine of Botany ;' presented by the Editors. ' Me- 

 morias de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid ;' presented by the 

 Academy. British plants from Mr. R. Withers, Mr. J. Tatham, Rev. 

 T. Butler, Mr. G. S. Gibson, Mr. J. Whittaker, Mr. J. G. Baker, Mrs. 

 James, and Mr. J. T. Syme. 



The Chairman exhibited German specimens of Equisetum inn nda- 

 tum, Lasch., considered by German botanists as a hybrid between E. 

 limosum and E. arvense. 



Mr. J. T. Syme (Curator) read a notice of Sparganium natans, "Z." 

 Fr., which he considered distinct from S. minimum, " BauhJ''' Fr., 

 the plant commonly called by the former name. He remarked that 

 Mr. Babington's descriptions of these two plants, in the third edition 

 of the ' Manual of British Botany,' pointed out the distinctive charac- 

 ters of each so clearly, that there was nothing of importance left to 

 notice. He stated that he had seen the plant growing in several 

 places in Braemar, in the Loch of Drum, Aberdeenshire, and near 

 the Spittal of Glenshee, in Perthshire ; he had also seen specimens 

 collected by Mr. H. C. Watson, in Inverness-shire, and on Purbright 

 Common, Surrey, and some, dated 1808, which had been gathered by 

 the Rev. D. Fleming, in Featholand Lake, North Mavine, in the 

 mainland of Zetland. Mr. Syme presented a set of specimens of the 

 plant to the herbarium of the Society. — G. E. D. 



